Kinds of Kindness: Jesse Plemons & Willem Dafoe Interview

After a huge awards season with Poor Things, the release of Kinds of Kindness this week, and the announcement of his next feature, Bugonia, filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is keeping busy. This means the actors he likes to work with - Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe - are also reading scripts, hitting rehearsals, and heading back into production soon. So, what is the set of a Lanthimos movie really like? The Academy Award-nominated director is a visionary who creates topsy-turvy realities that blur the everyday with whimsy or, in the case of Kinds of Kindness, “very dark, heavy themes” and black humor. During this interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Plemons and Dafoe give us a peek behind the scenes.
Kinds of Kindness is an anthology of “strange sociological horror,” according to our own Chase Hutchinson. It tells three contained stories that feature Stone, Plemons, Dafoe, Joe Alwyn, Hong Chau, Mamoudou Athie, and Margaret Qualley as a revolving cast of different characters, all struggling with themes of control, connection, and power. Considering it’s an anthology that delivers such heavy thematic elements based on Lanthimos’ unusual and “precise vision,” even Plemons (who earned Best Actor for Kinds of Kindness at Cannes) assumed the filmmaker’s collaboration would be rigid.
In this interview, Plemons and Dafoe discuss their experiences working with Lanthimos. They share insights into the unique process on set and their own expectations going into the project. The duo also offer their personal recommendations for those interested in exploring more of Yorgos Lanthimos' work.
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